Moby-Dick, Or, The WhaleNorthwestern University Press, 1988 - 1043 sider In Moby Dick Melville set out to write a "mighty book" on "a mighty theme." The editors of this critical text affirm that he succeeded. Nevertheless, their prolonged examination of the novel reveals textual flaws and anomalies that help to explain Melville's fears that his great work was in some ways a hash or a botch. A lengthy historical note also gives a fresh account of Melville's earlier literary career and his working conditions as he wrote; it also analyzes the book's contemporary reception and outlines how it finally achieved fame. Other sections review theories of the book's genesis, detail the circumstances of its publication, and present documents closely relating to the story. -- Amazon.com. |
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... whale , the great Cuvier , and John Hunter , and Lesson , those lights of ... whale . Run over a few : -The Authors of the Bible ; Aristotle ; Pliny ; Aldrovandi ... sperm whale , compared with which the Greenland whale is almost unworthy ...
... whale , the great Cuvier , and John Hunter , and Lesson , those lights of ... whale . Run over a few : -The Authors of the Bible ; Aristotle ; Pliny ; Aldrovandi ... sperm whale , compared with which the Greenland whale is almost unworthy ...
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... whale ; and I am strongly inclined to think a sperm whale . And I will tell you why . For a long time I fancied that the sperm whale had been always unknown in the Mediterranean and the deep waters connecting with it . Even now I am ...
... whale ; and I am strongly inclined to think a sperm whale . And I will tell you why . For a long time I fancied that the sperm whale had been always unknown in the Mediterranean and the deep waters connecting with it . Even now I am ...
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... Sperm Whale and the Right Whale have almost entirely different heads . To sum up , then : in the Right Whale's there is no great well of sperm ; no ivory teeth at all ; no long , slender mandible of a lower jaw , like the Sperm Whale's ...
... Sperm Whale and the Right Whale have almost entirely different heads . To sum up , then : in the Right Whale's there is no great well of sperm ; no ivory teeth at all ; no long , slender mandible of a lower jaw , like the Sperm Whale's ...
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